[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox security

[bscuk2]

Has anyone considered lightspark as a substitute for flash on Oi?

On 18/11/2012 18:19, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2012-11-18 18:00, cpforum wrote:
>> Firefox, Java and Thunderbird are very old releases. Gnome Desktop is 
>> not maintened and applications like OpenOffice, Flash, Adobe Reader, 
>> etc. are 2 or 3 years old with a lot of known security holes.
>
> Speaking of which: some of these projects are opensource, others
> are proprietary - even if distributed by authors for free.
>
> Is there any lineup of such products as Java, Adobe Reader and
> Flash, OpenOffice or its more current descendants, Mozilla stuff,
> VirtualBox (GPL half, at least) - what may be redistributed how?
>
> For example, whenever a new JDK/JRE comes out, can we publish its
> files into the OI IPS repo as a new version of the appropriate
> package, or the license states that the end-user must download
> the software from original vendor's site (like in VBox PUEL)?
>
> I don't think it is a fundamental problem to fire up a repository
> of third-party software which would suck in and republish as IPS
> the tarballs and packages made by other projects (like Mozilla,
> Java, VirtualBox, etc.etc.etc.) - if we know we're not to be sued
> for making such a repo. Possibly this can be done as part of the
> existing SFE or SFE-encumbered repos (skipping the manual build
> part by the repo maintainer)?
>
> For projects with well standardized releases, sucking-in of the new
> versions can be quite automated (similar to spec files or recipes
> in the userland gate), and end-users would have a simple automated
> means of receiving the new software in a timely manner...
>
> My 2c,
> //Jim
>
>
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